Clamp for carvings



No. 609,539. Patented Aug. 23, 1398. c. J. GARTNER.

CLAMP FOR CABVINGS.

(Application filed Feb. 5, 1898.)

(No Model.)

' Witnesses: Inventor l I 2 Q I I W pggorney CHARLES J. GARTNER, OF SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA.

CLAMP FOR CARVINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 609,539, dated August 23, 1898. Application filed February 5, 1898. Serial No. 669,218. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. GARDNER, of Shelbyville, Shelby county, Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clamps for Carvings, &c., of which I the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to. an improved clamp for cabinet-makers use in clamping delicate carvings, beads, fretwork, &c., to cabinet-work While it is being glued thereon. Such work does not well lend itself to the use of ordinary cla'mp-screws, it being impossible in many cases to get the clamp-screws to reach the proper flexible parts of the carvings, &C., or to get enough of the clampscrews upon the work. Recourse is therefore generally had to nails, which have a tendency to split delicate Work, besides leaving holes in the work requiring to be skilfully filled.

My invention consists of a clamp having an elongated head or handle and a relatively short spike or brad at one edge thereof, the head or handle being narrow in one dimension and wide in the other whereby the brad may be inserted and removed by hand-pressure solely, the narrowness of the handle not interfering with the work and permitting the workman to work around the sides of the handle.

My improved clamp will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of one of my im proved clamps; Fig. 2, an edge view of the same; Fig. 3, a side View of one of the clamps modified somewhat in form; and Fig. 4:, a plan of a board having upon it a piece of carving, a piece of fretwork, and two pieces of headin g secured in place by my improved clamps.

In the drawings, 1 represents the body of the clamp, the same being a flat piece of metal, preferably sheet-steel; 2, a delicate spike formed in prolongation of one edge of the body; 3, the clamping-shoulder formed by the lower edge of the body at the side of the spike; 4,- corrugations formed in the edges of the body to facilitate withdrawing the clamp from the work; 5, a board exemplify ing any piece of cabinet-work to which delicate carvings or the like are to be glued; 6, a piece of thin fretwork being glued to the board; 7, a piece of delicate carving being carving or beading.

glued to the board; ,8, a piece of beading being glued to the board, upon the face of the board, along with the fretwork and carving, and 9 a piece of beading being glued to the edge of the board. 1

In using the improved clamps the work, be it carving, beading, or what-not, which is to be secured to the board, is placed thereon in glue, as usual, and then secured firmly in place by means of the clamps, whose spikes are to be driven down into the board or other article alongside the edge of the carving or heading, the shoulder 3 of the clamp coming over the appropriate portion of the The clamps are driven down upon the work with sufficient tightness only to hold the work in place without harming it and in some cases the clamps mayeven be applied with the fingers without driving. The clamps are applied wherever needed to hold the work snugly down to place and as many of them are used as are deemed needful. In applying the clamps the spikes are preferably placed snugly up against the side edge of the work which is to be clamped.

The spikes of the clamps may be round, square, or triangular, as desired. When the glue is sufficiently hardened, the spikes may be removed with the fingers,or with pincers,if

necessary. For much work the clamping shoulder 3 may be straight, as in Fig. l, while in other cases it will be desirable to have this shoulder hollowed, as in Fig. 3, to engage better over the surface of the Work. The corrugations 4 (seen in Fig. 3) give a better hold to the fingers in withdrawing the clamps from the work. The spikes 2 are delicate and leave exceedingly-small holes in the wood when withdrawn, and in finishing the work the filler ordinarily used will naturally fill up these holes, especially if they are locatedclose against the edges of thecarvings,

8rd, where the filler and varnish form fillets.

I claim as my invention The hereinsetforth clamp for carvings,&c. comprising a long, wide and thin handle sub stantially rectangularin form, having a brad projecting from said handle in line'with one of its longest edges, substantially as de scribed.

CHARLES J. GARTNER. Witnesses:

J our: G. KING, CHARLES BIRELY. 

